Hi guys. I have one of those NVIDIA 540M laptop cards. Whenever I run a 3d game, it usually turns up like this:

I'm using the most recent version of Linux Mint Debian.

Anyways, I hard LMDE does not support Optimus NVIDIA cards? Someone on IRC told me to use Bumblebee... I tried what I could understand about the tutorial, but even after installing stuff and all that... It still didn't work! D:

Lishy wrote:Anyways, I hard LMDE does not support Optimus NVIDIA cards? Someone on IRC told me to use Bumblebee... I tried what I could understand about the tutorial, but even after installing stuff and all that... It still didn't work! D:

Bumblebee works sweetly on Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon, easy without configuration, by adding the PPA. The discrete card (nvidia) is OFF by default and cpu runs 10-20 degrees cooler. Optirun works ok too. All stable, and the only program I ever have probs with, is transmission-gtk sometimes (seldom) freezes.

Debian however, is another story. Searching online, from what I can see, nobody successfully runs Bumblebee on Debian OS.Am I wrong? Has anybody got Bumblebee successfully running on Debian??If so, step-by-step how to?

On debian I had bumblebee working in the wheezy/sid (testing/unstable) version with http://suwako.nomanga.net/ repository. It works on stable(debian released) kernels, ev en sid, but not with liquorix kernel, also had several bugs regarding kernel modules/drivers (mounting ntfs, virtualbox errors, optirun crash on drawing a triangle in inkscape ) )Also gave it a shot in crunchbang (debian wheezy based) same issues.

Debian stable is verry out of date, old DE, old kernel and so on, thus kind of laggy on newer hardware. I'd highly recommend it for a server but not for gaming/webdesign/graphics/laptops. So installing the stable version, and manually installing bumblebee is kind of useless.

Back to the issue, if the launchpad ppas method fails, i'll be back with some other ways of installing bumblebee (and also a newer kernel, 3.6 or 3.7 hopefully stable).